A Serpent in Turquoise

Bone Hunters #2

by Peggy Nicholson

Careening down a winding pass in Mexico to escape a truckload of goons wasn't how dinosaur hunter Raine Ashaway planned to meet Anson McCord, the archaeologist who'd written her regarding a possible fossil find. She'd expected the professor to be a fossil himself, but McCord's more Indiana Jones than the Mummy. And when he describes a lost Aztec city whose people worshipped a god resembling a never-before-seen species of triceratops, the news gets her blood pumping as much as his sexy Texan smile. Raine's ready to seek the city of the Feathered Serpent with McCord, but can she trust him to share the spoils?

It may not matter—others will do anything to keep them from finding it!

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 2006

Reviews

[Linda C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anson McCord sees bone hunter Raine Ashaway’s picture in a National Geographic with a dinosaur find and sends her a letter asking for her knowledge on Mexican dinosaurs. She has finished a project and is intrigued and sets off to see what McCord is seeking. Raine is a strong, intelligent woman and McCord is a little Indiana Jones. Their search involves many competing interests from local Indians, drug dealers, ancient Aztec legends, local bandits, and a potential dam project. And, of course, they each have their own interests. Good adventure and romance.

[Mersadies · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was action packed from the very beginning. You were thrown into action and adventure throughout the whole book.I loved all the Aztec stories, and legends wound into the story, it was wonderful and intriguing. The characters were well developed and had depth, the relationship in the story actually had time to bloom but was still a little quick for me. The main characters Raine and McCord were both driven, determined and stubborn which made for a wonderful dialogue between the two.

[Ross Jenkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was hoping for more. I really, really enjoyed Nicholson's early Superromance work (the 23rd Man and Scent of a Woman are some of my favourite books) and hoped that her moving into the 'Bombshell' line would give her more freedom to excel. It didn't, and while this book was ok, there was nothing exceptional about it. The action sequences in the last quarter were especially muddy.